FactorioBot wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 23, 2020 8:29 pm

Balancing

• Productivity module 1 decreases speed of the machine by 5% instead of 15%.
• Productivity module 2 decreases speed of the machine by 10% instead of 15%.

Why?

Just trying to understand what's wrong with 15%.

I think natural cooling can be implemented is already implemented and just need to be activated. There already is some engine for thermodynamics, which transfers heat across all heat pipes. Every pipe considers its neighbours, so add a virtual neighbour "Air" with constant temperature. You even don'...

jodokus31 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 13, 2020 8:50 pm

Backward compatibility is dead weight. It's wise to remove it to increase maintainability by reducing lines of code and outdated logic

You can remove anything you want, just keep that outdated code in a separate exe. Now I'm going to download OldFactoro.exe, can Factorio do it for me?

You haven't lost them. On your Factorio account, you can download any major version all the way back to 0.6.4. Yes, I know I can turn the time with a little mess. Why I can't do this with a zero clicks? Would it be possible to rename Factorio017.exe to SeamlessConverter017.exe and insert it into th...

1.1 seems a good time to do that once again, so we are dropping support for save games from 0.16 and 0.17. If you want to preserve those save games, you will need to load them in 1.0 (which can load 0.16 and 0.17 save games) and resave them. -1 I just found I can't open my early gavesames with 1.0....

AmericanPatriot wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:20 pm

I thought most people researched mining productivity and bot speed

Sounds reasonable, I believe most players research useful things. I research mining productivity too, until I am ready for The Final Run. And then I switch to all bottles. Some players don't switch.

how do you consume military science packs if they are not required for research? I just stockpile unused packs. This may sound like wasting resources, but there are no compromises for that achievement :roll: Actually, there are two stages: factory growth + mining boost, and then proving capabilitie...

This may be an A/B test.

Sometimes (maybe even often) military science is excluded. if you really want follower robot count, you can have backup labs that only activate when the others back up. The backup only needs half as many labs too. I do not want follower robot count. I research whatever I want, keeping producing all...

I’m a big fan of rational numbers. It’s more of a “fractionorial” system Or you could swap out military/whatever pack isn’t used with circuits. (unless you want to research follower count forever) I think "SPM" tag implies all kinds of science packs, regardles of the way how they are consumed. I al...

Sounds like metric vs factorional
In my factory, I count everyting in blue belts

I only need an 8th science pack for my pretty belts.

In that thread I posted about the solution. The game already has text "text plates" buildable in game. These letters do not look good: the font is not "industrial", the blue background looks clear but it is not "organic" for Factorio. This is debugging information, not a text entity itself. In shor...

I’m pretty sure I got my signaling down pat. I’ve been using a t intersection that I made myself and it’s working fine for the 5 trains in my base. 5 trains make very low traffix, so any intersection will be fine. What if you had 50 trains on the same route? There would be heavy traffic, and you wo...

Could you add a screenshot of the setup? This would answer many questions: how many cars, how many outputs, how big, is it nice etc

There are some really extensive defense designs. I don't think they are really necessary or economical in a game with unmodded biters, though. Once you have the ability to build such defensive structures, you should be able to simply put a continues line of turrets down. There are simple non-linear...

So give us a growing volcano that can be slowed down using a liquid from those white bottles

OT: are there any threads discussing linear defense alternatives? I could not find any (geometric art doesn't count).
I just saw yet another laser wall, but I think it is less effective unless you use 2+ rows of lasers.

I think we solve more general question: can we make railway signalling easier? And derivative: can we make it easier for new players? And the second derivative: can we make it withough significant redesing? I started here, but we can go deeper higher. How about some third king of signal, kind of "si...

Qon wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:33 pm

So a new complicated feature that stops working after tops 5 more minutes of research? And that teaches new players the WRONG way about how the signals work?

Ok, how we can improve this? I already have new ideas, how about you?

OT
How about railway pathfinder v2.0 that would be deadlock-resistant? Please don't say it would cost many CPU and RAM, because it would work only on small factories (say, until chain signal technology researched )